[license grant and reference related after all: subject changed] Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2015-05-21 10:32:49) > Quoting Ben Finney (2015-05-21 02:14:43) >> Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> writes: >> >>> Quoting Ben Finney (2015-05-20 08:46:44) >>>> Is there a place in ‘debian/copyright’ for the text granting >>>> license to the work, separate from the text of the license itself? > […] >> Perhaps an update to the copyright format can allow this information >> to be captured in a standard machine-parseable way. > > Yes. I believe the formally correct approach is to file a bugreport > against debian-copyright. > > Will you do it? I find you far better at phrasing things than me. […] >> How about this:: >> >> Files: * >> Copyright: 2012-2014, Toby Inkster <tobyink@cpan.org> >> License: Artistic or GPL-1+ >> License-Grant: >> This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify >> it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language >> system itself. >> Comment: >> Perl 5 is licensed under either the 'Artistic license' or the >> 'GNU General Public License' version 1 or later. >> >> Would that field be a good addition to the copyright format >> definition? > > Looks good to me. > > In fact, if nothing even more sensible emerge I will start using that > pattern right now (format 1.0 permits undefined fields). I now begun (starting with librdf-ldf-perl) to use this pattern: > Files: debian/* > Copyright: 2014, Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> > License: GPL-3+ > License-Grant: > This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify > it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by > the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at > your option) any later version. > . > This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but > WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of > MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU > General Public License for more details. […] > License: GPL-3+ > Comment: > On Debian systems the 'GNU General Public License' version 3 is > located in '/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3'. I.e. I've replaced my previous license-in-comment and comment-in-license pseudo-fields with License-Grant and License-Reference fields. I've filed related bug#786450 against lintian. Does that pattern look sensible? - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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